Coda changed hands and name in 2026: Grammarly bought it in 2025, and on 8 July 2026 it became Superhuman Docs. People now look for a Coda alternative because the product has been folded into a wider AI suite, because the maker-only billing needs a re-check, or because their data has outgrown a document. They mostly go to a table-first database, a page-first workspace, or a self-hosted tool.
Short answer: Where a category has smaller vendors worth recommending, they occupy the first three places and the big brands come below them. For Coda (Superhuman Docs) users, the top three picks from our no-code database tool ranking are Notion, Fibery and Airtable. Pick Notion if the wiki and notes matter more than the tables, and guests should read for nothing. These 12 products are all in Best No-Code Database Tools in 2026; the notes say how each one compares with Coda (Superhuman Docs).
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Pricing: Billed per Doc Maker; editors and viewers free; per-maker prices not readable (client-rendered), see pricing page
Established in: Not stated by the vendor
Built for: Teams that mix writing, tables and buttons in one shared page
Not for: Teams that need millions of rows today or a self-hosted install
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Why buyers look past Coda (Superhuman Docs)
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A new owner and a new name
Grammarly acquired Coda in 2025, and Superhuman's own blog dates the rename to Superhuman Docs at 8 July 2026, with the vendor stating that the features stay the same. Old coda.io links redirect, per the vendor. A team that picked Coda as an independent product may want a fresh look at the roadmap, now set by a suite.
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Documents that act as databases hit a ceiling
Coda says its docs scale to over 100k rows, and the vendor is beta-testing Superhuman Databases for up to 1,000,000 rows. For data-heavy teams that is a stated direction rather than a shipped plan. Competitors sell row allowances today: Teable lists 1,000,000 rows on Business, SeaTable 100,000 per base.
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Billing follows the makers
Coda charges Doc Makers only, with editors and viewers free, and contrasts that with Airtable. The model rewards wide reading and narrow building. It also means a rollout where many people build gets expensive, and we did not see current per-maker prices because the pricing page renders client-side. Tools priced by plan or row allowance change that equation.
you mostly pull outside data into columns and want cheap read-only access for the rest
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What each one does differently
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Notion
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Notion is the nearest neighbour: pages first, databases second, priced per member (Free, then Plus at €9.50 and Business at €19.50 a month on yearly billing) with free guests who see only the pages they are invited to. Its Free plan allows button-only automations and one chart, and Coda's table formulas have no direct counterpart.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if the wiki and notes matter more than the tables, and guests should read for nothing.
Fibery models work as linked databases across a whole company, and its Free plan covers up to 10 users with 10 databases, 1 GB of storage and 250 automation runs a month. Standard costs €12 and Pro €20 per user. Observers and guests are free, and the vendor says it is made and hosted in Europe. It writes less like a document than Coda does.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if relations between departments' data outrank page layout, and European hosting counts.
Airtable is the table-first pole of this pair: paid seats are anyone with edit rights on a base (Team $20, Business $45 on yearly billing), while read-only collaborators and form submissions cost nothing. Record caps apply per base, 50,000 on Team and 125,000 on Business. Prose and page layout are secondary to the grid.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if most of the work happens in grids, forms and interfaces rather than long-form pages.
SmartSuite sells ready-made solutions for risk and compliance, IT service delivery, projects and business operations, rather than a blank canvas. Team is $15 per seat on yearly billing with a three-seat minimum and 5,000 records per solution; Professional is $32 with five seats minimum. Only a 14-day trial is offered, not a free plan.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if you would rather deploy a prebuilt operations solution than assemble formulas yourself.
Grist keeps a spreadsheet look over relational tables and writes formulas in Python. Free allows 5,000 records per document and 10 members; Pro is $10 monthly ($8 yearly) per user at up to 100,000 records. The core is Apache 2.0 and can be run on your own server. Documents are far less page-like than a Coda doc.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if analysts want Python formulas and the option to host the data themselves.
Baserow is a database-first builder on Django, Vue and PostgreSQL, with non-premium code under the MIT licence. Cloud pricing is by workspace row allowance: Free 3,000 rows, Premium $10 per user a month on yearly billing with 50,000 rows. Its pages, buttons and doc layout are thinner than Coda's.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if you want an open-source database you can host, priced by row allowance, with no document canvas needed.
SeaTable GmbH of Mainz hosts its cloud in Germany and sells an on-premises server too. The Free plan permits up to 25 users and 10,000 rows; Plus costs €7 per user on yearly billing (50,000 rows), Enterprise €14 with unlimited total rows but 100,000 per base. It is a table tool, not a document one.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if German hosting or an installable server is a procurement requirement and prices should be in euros.
NocoDB puts a spreadsheet front end over your own SQL database, with a self-hosted Community edition under its Sustainable Use Licence. Cloud Free covers 3 users and 1,000 records; Plus is $12 per seat on yearly billing, or $108 monthly for unlimited seats. The licence is source-available, not OSI open source.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if the data already sits in PostgreSQL or similar and you want a grid view on it, not a new store.
Teable describes itself as an AI spreadsheet with real PostgreSQL underneath. The core is AGPL-3.0 for self-hosting. Cloud Free gives 1,000 rows per space; Pro is $13 per seat on yearly billing with 250,000 rows, Business $20 with 1,000,000. It is a younger product with a narrower page and doc side than Coda.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if you want a large-row spreadsheet database with an AGPL core to self-host.
Knack turns a relational database into customer-facing web apps with logins, roles and payments. Pricing is by plan, not seat: Starter lists at $59 monthly ($49 yearly) for 20,000 records and 3 apps, Pro $130 for 50,000. App users are unlimited, but each counts as a record. Internal wiki and note use is not what it targets.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if the output is a portal for clients or partners who log in, and a flat plan beats per-seat billing.
Ragic builds database sheets that work as forms, with Free (3 sheets of 1,000 records), Lite at $5 and Professional at $19 per user a month, and concurrent-user plans from $499 per 10 users. On-premises is listed from Professional up. The interface is form-and-sheet, closer to a business database than a doc.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if many occasional users share a few seats, so concurrent-user pricing or on-premises fits better.
Stackby is a lightweight spreadsheet-database with API connectors that fill columns from other services. The Free plan gives 5 editors, 50 read-only users and 1,500 rows per stack; monthly Economy is $9 per seat (7,000 rows), Business $18 (50,000). Read-only collaborators and form submissions are not charged. It has no doc canvas.
Switch from Coda (Superhuman Docs) if you mostly pull outside data into columns and want cheap read-only access for the rest.
When Coda (Superhuman Docs) is still the right choice
Coda is still the right choice when the work is a mix of long-form writing, tables and buttons that must live in a single page, and when a few makers build for many readers. Its 600+ integrations and Packs are the vendor's headline strength, and the maker-only billing suits that shape of team. If your docs rely on its formulas and the rename changes nothing you use, moving only costs rebuild time.
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What moving off Coda (Superhuman Docs) involves
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Formulas and buttons are rebuilt, not carried over
Coda's formula language, buttons and Packs belong to Coda. In Notion, Airtable or SmartSuite you recreate the logic in that tool's own formulas and automations, and Packs only help where the target has a comparable integration. Inventory your five most-used buttons and formulas before choosing.
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Decide whether the page or the table wins
A Coda doc mixes both. Page-first tools such as Notion keep the prose and weaken the tables; table-first ones such as Airtable, Baserow or SeaTable keep the data and drop the layout. Split the doc: tables to a database, narrative to a wiki, and link between them.
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Check the export route before cancelling
Run a test export of one representative doc, including linked tables, and open it in the target tool. We did not verify Coda's export formats from the vendor, so treat this as a task to do yourself, and keep the old workspace until a full cycle of work has run elsewhere.
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Questions about replacing Coda (Superhuman Docs)
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Is Coda the same product as Superhuman Docs?
Yes, according to the vendor's rename post of 8 July 2026: Coda is now Superhuman Docs, with the same features, a new name and visual identity, and redirects from old coda.io doc links.
Who owns Coda now?
Superhuman's company history says Grammarly acquired Coda in 2025 and that Superhuman is the unified brand. Superhuman's own pages are the source. We did not find a legal entity name on the pages we could read.
Which Coda alternative is closest?
Notion is the nearest for docs with embedded databases. Fibery is closer when relations between datasets matter, and Airtable when the table is the point. Each drops something Coda combines in one page.
Is there a self-hosted alternative to Coda?
Grist, Baserow, NocoDB, Teable and SeaTable all offer a self-hosted edition, with licences ranging from MIT and Apache 2.0 to AGPL-3.0 and a source-available one. None is a document canvas like Coda.
Does Coda charge per user?
The vendor says it charges only Doc Makers, while editors and viewers are free. We could not read the live per-maker prices, so check the pricing page before comparing.
What if I need more than 100k rows?
Coda quotes scale to over 100k rows and a Superhuman Databases beta for up to 1,000,000. Teable lists 1,000,000 rows on Business and Baserow 250,000 on Advanced, so row-heavy workloads have shipped alternatives.
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